I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.

So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn’t have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.

Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?

*edit: I should add that I originally meant “self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions,” but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.

  • bladewdr@infosec.pubEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I’ve actually been fighting with this since yesterday.

    Pocket Casts is one of my last things that I’m not self-hosting, and I’m trying to change that.

    My list of requirements was:

    1. Multi-device sync
    2. Be able to play seamlessly from either a web UI or my mobile device, picking up where I left off on either device.

    For my Gpodder backend I chose to use the GpodderSync NextCloud app, since I’m already running NextCloud.

    I tried PinePods and PodFetch for the web interface, both of which had various issues with sync.

    Supposedly there’s a big update to sync coming for PinePods in a couple days, but I wasn’t able to get it working at all.

    PodFetch has its own internal gpodder server implementation, but for the life of me, I could not get it to keep listen state in sync. Also, I initially set it up to use OIDC authentication since I’m also running Authentik - but don’t try to do that if you want to use the Gpodder integration. The two are essentially mutually exclusive, at least in its current state.

    What I’ve settled on for the moment:

    1. AntennaPod for mobile playback. (Be aware that there are additional steps for Android Auto support if you install it from F-Droid as I did)
    2. NextCloud GpodderSync to keep track of listen state and subscriptions.
    3. NextCloud NextPod app for web UI playback. I’m not exactly happy with this, as it’s a very ugly and basic UI, but it does work, and it does keep track of where I left off the way I want. Hopefully the PinePods update fixes my issues with it, as the web interface for that was much more slick.
  • Opeth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I’m using antennapod. It syncs to a selfhosted gpodder instance and some podcasts are hosted on my audiobookshelf. I like some exclusive podcasts from podimo but their player is shit. Selfhost a tool that creates rss feeds for those walled podimo podcasts and they get downloaded and served by audiobookshelf.

  • iamnotme@feddit.ukEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I use Gonic, does exactly what I need. It’s in a docker container and hasn’t let me down in over a year.

    To listen to Podcasts from it I use play:Sub on iOS

  • Tinkerer@lemmy.caEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I’m self hosting audiobookshelf with tailscale. Also use home assistant with music assistant to play my podcasts on all my home speakers as well.

  • j0ester@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    There seems to be a lot of fun checking out Podcast apps, but I couldn’t find a lot of these on iOS App Store sigh

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Pocket Cast, because it is the only option to have my queue synced along all my Android, iOS and even Alexa devices (I don’t pay the subscription so I am missing out on the desktop and website ones), if there is an alternative for it, please enlighten me.

  • Legume5534@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I don’t understand the point of self hosting for podcasts. The whole point of podcasts is being able to stream or download them directly from the source.

    Until someone makes a self-hosted podcast caching server that can strip the embedded ads using AI, I’ll have no idea why people do it.

  • Ilixtze@lemm.eeEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Rss feeds on AIMP; I miss the time when AIMP could stream you tube videos; It was very convenient to have it all in one program.

  • Bishop_Magnus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I use Podcast Republic, nice interface, active developer, good library tracking. Search function is nice, can go by podcast name or description so you can search for guests. Subscription can auto download (I don’t) lots of options for playback and bookmarks etc. I think it’s very solid. *Just read the edit, but still a good app :)